Edward Van Halen: A genius, self taught guitar engineer without out fear of guitar destruction. Breaker of the guitar construction rules and a fancy fingers technical virtuoso. The G.O.A.T. The Legend. The One and Only. I can do this all day.😂🎸👍

This is a wonderful series Steve! Derek is fantastic person and player. Y'all go see Fan Halen if you want a great VH experience!

Ha! I love the 1984 "big brother is watching you" banner behind you. 😉👍

Steve, thank you for doing this! This is such a gift!

I could NEVER find the mistake on Eruption actually....lol ..When in 1978 I first heard the the bit where Ed does the Divebomb right down on the low E before the pause I though the belt drive on vinyl turntable had snapped & the mechanism had ground to a halt.....lol

Nice Of You To Release This Amazing Recordings

Oh yeah! This one will be awesome! I wait patiently on a daily basis for the magical moment I'll open my post box to find my copy of the 2nd edition of "Tonechaser " to have arrived. 😊

Thank you so much Steve, these are incredible. You are such a gift to Van Halen fans. Thank you Thank you

Steve So much Love 😍 Brother,, miss just hearing Edd,s Voice!!! Just so Glad U had those Tapes , God Bless you Brother and Adam all U do as well on this project thank U so much Too!! ❤️🙏🤘🎸🤠

Thank you Steve…fantastic snippets behind these amazing songs ❤

Looking forward to this!

Hi Steve , just brilliant - thank you . I am off the opinion no one can ever eclipse Tonechaser and this is a pefect addition.

Probably meant that a mistake was that he played a line differently even though he still played a melody in key

Hi Steve, such great footage from big admirers like you!! I am a fan for life and beyond since the beginning of VH. Was last year at the childhood house las lunas street and Coldwater canyon 5150. Keep up the good work! Keep on rockin’ VH! Greetz from Holland, yes 🇳🇱The Netherlands, land of the wooden klumps and windmills 😎👌👌👍👍🤘🤘

Amazing interview

Derek is badass. FH kills it. 🤘🎸😊

Super awesome !!! Merci beaucoup Steve 🤙🏻

VH played, too, thousands in the 70"s! Who's to say that the Dills got the stripes off EVH. & not the other way around. It makes sense he got it from EVH.

Amazing 🎉❤🙏🏼🎸

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Steve, thank you!! 🤘🍺🍺🍺🍺

The EVH stripe' came from the Boris Karloff 'Thriller' TV series

Solid Gold...did he ever discuss the riffs from ''I'm The One'' ?? That one sizzled...those are some cool guitars 🎨

04:30 interesting that Templeman said he hadn't seen Ed "tapping" because the story of how Templeman "discovered" Ed playing in a club seemed to have him listening to him play long enough to see Ed doing it (?)

I saw Fan Halen recently and they were incredible!! 🎸🎶🤘

Fascinating video

Ed talks about the “mistake” In Eruption during his 1996 visit to Jason Becker’s house

I think EVH said one of the mistakes on Eruption was feedback at the middle pause. The engineer had to erase the feedback!

VH is supposed to be listened to while drinking beer, playing pool, and hanging with chicks. Not disecting each song trying to change it to be how genius it is. Even eddie said that in this interview.

I met Eddie in 92. Did work at his new house . All I can say is….. never meet your heroes. This book kinda goes into what I’m saying.

Great video! What is guitarist playing through on video amp and effect wise? Sounds just like it

What speaker is that? Sounds pretty good

Am reading the book. Thanks Steve.

Probably no better moniker for EVH than "Tone Chaser." Dude, I think, had an affliction that tormented him all his life to find the right sound. It's got to be an OCD thing. Even took it so far to build his own guitars. People just didn't do that back then. Speaking of creative OCD - Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys has spoken a lot about that creative bee in the bonnet where there is something inside the brain trying to get it out. And he writes and records a beautiful song but still it isn't quite what he was looking for. I think, adjusted for inflation, "Good Vibrations" is still the most expensive song ever recorded. He spent months on it.

Edward was also a huge AC DC fan.. take a look at the clothes that ACDC were wearing in the video jail break! He probably did get the stripes from that punk guitarist though.

I believe "Atomic Punk" was the first track they recorded in the studio for the album. Their version of Punk Rock!

Tone Talk brought me here

Awesome work guyz 🤘😎🤘Should ya bend 2 strings ascending, one string will raise in pitch while the other string will descend. It sounds pretty cool! People will certainly say, "What The FUCK"? Looks cool and sounds cool as shit!🤘😎🤘

Hey Steve!

Excellent, I just wish the sound quality was better (both the from the people and the music) Nevertheless thank you for posting

It’s on the high tapping part.

Hey Steve! Hope you are well.

There's no mistake on it because he never really played it the same way live anyway.

OMG so that one little slip up to 18th fret on just one tap then goes to the 17th is supposed to be the mistake on eruption? 😂

This is fantastic. But what (signal chain) are we hearing?

Is that Satchel without the wig and make up ?

Chip Kinman is still around. The Dils have done reunion show in the past few years. Chip and his brother Tony had a great band called Rank and File.

Who's to say that the guitarist from the Dills (copied) it from EVH! Lol! Everybody was TRYING to copy EVH look & style! Even the paint stripes!

I'm thinking Eddie said the wrong song title because, obviously, Atomic Punk has a punk feel to it.

Why do you call him Edward instead of Eddie?

The timeline on the Ed /Dills stripes certainly fits doesn't it ?

👇 "Promo SM"

Whole lot of sniffing going on

Derek looks too much like Satchel...

You can actually see the Dills performing at The Roxy on Cheech and Chong's up in smoke during the Rock Fights and the guitarist is playing the white lesnpaul copy with black tape striped all over it.